FA Cup final tickets stolen from mail van

By Anil Dawar

12:01AM BST 08 May 2006

Tickets for Saturday's FA Cup final have been stolen from a Royal Mail van in Liverpool.

It was not known how many were taken but the Football Association said all the missing tickets would be cancelled. Officials were trying to identify the affected fans to provide them with replacements.

There have been complaints from fans of the two finalists - Liverpool and West Ham - that their allocation of 24,400 tickets each was inadequate.

The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff holds 74,000 spectators and some of the tickets, which range in price from £25 to £90, have been changing hands on eBay for up to £950.

Police warned against buying tickets from touts, saying fans ran the risk of being barred from the stadium.